Yeah, that's a wild one -- and at the root is Sanskrit vātigagama, “the plant that cures the wind,” and I rilly want the story behind that. Vedics peoples thought it helped with flatulence?
ETA: TIL it looks like Solanum incanum was domesticated into Solanum melongena twice, once in South Asia and once in East Asia, and both times this turned a yellow fruit into a purple one. Wild.
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Date: 2025-05-22 10:04 pm (UTC)Yeah, that's a wild one -- and at the root is Sanskrit vātigagama, “the plant that cures the wind,” and I rilly want the story behind that. Vedics peoples thought it helped with flatulence?
ETA: TIL it looks like Solanum incanum was domesticated into Solanum melongena twice, once in South Asia and once in East Asia, and both times this turned a yellow fruit into a purple one. Wild.